Episode Information: Warning - This episode is rated NSFW... or safe for bloody well anywhere else. You've been warned! INCREDIBLE adult content in the final twenty minutes. Just... back away slowly. Before that, Bob and Anthony discuss video game tv shows, 2013, and the Ni No Kuni demo! So... it starts out innocently enough... and then takes a sharp turn into WTF?!

Running Time: 1 hour 44 minutes

Reminder: We're still looking for fan-art submissions and we'd love it if you pitched questions to the LoL-Cat Mailbag. Low On Life's official Email is lowonlifepodcast@gmail.com. More information can be found in this blog.

Also: Don't forget to check out the new Hot Buttons podcast as well! More in-depth conversation about important issues in the gaming world.

Episode Information: On the first episode of the Hot Buttons podcast, Kallie and Bob ask the question: where do we draw the line on what content is acceptable in video games. Are there subjects that are too taboo in games, or can anything be portrayed? (Note: We know Kallie is a little quiet. We're working on that, sorry)

Episode Information: After tech failure ruined the first attempt, a new episode of LoL is finally here! Anthony returns with his take on the Wii U. Later, the guys search for the worst fanbase in video games, and Bob goes off on the one game he hates the most! It's a ranting, raving, awkward episode. So in other words: business as usual.

It's coming! For the past couple weeks, we've discussed the next big tournament coming to the Low On Life podcast. After the success of the Video Game Character Smackdown (can I get a "YAAAAY HITLER!?), we decided it would be fun to keep the tournament idea going. So, the Best Of The Worst tournament was born. It's pretty simple: 16 terrible games enter, and only one leaves. Which one of these games is actually not as horrible as originally thought?

We'll be discussing each game in-depth for each contest, looking at it and trying as hard as we can to find redeeming qualities within the garbage!

Shall we introduce you to the contestants? These games are generally horribly received. Be it terrible design, a horrible idea, or just... fucking EVERYTHING being wrong about it. It's a showdown of some of the most notoriously awful games of all time, games such as...

Orphen: Scion of Sorcery (Bob's most hated game of all time... expect angry rants!)

E.T. on the Atari 2600

Michael Jackson's Moonwalker

Superman 64

Lester The Unlikely

Wand of Gamelon

Shaq Fu

Captain Novolin

Action 52

Bubsy 3D

Shadow The Hedgehog

Street Fighter The Movie... The Game

Chulip

Ninjabread Man

Home Improvement: Power Tool Pursuit

Friday The 13th

*shivers*

Just... this isn't going to be pretty.

I suppose you'd like to see the bracket? Well, HERE IT IS FOLKS! (Note: Click to Enlarge!)

We'll be taking this two to three matches a week, and will be attempting to play as many of these games as possible before hand if we haven't played it already. We want this to be an interesting conversation that looks at the games as closely as we can without rage-quitting our own lives.

The fun starts this Wednesday on an all new episode of the Low On Life podcast!

Alright, so we're running on fumes here! The podcast is fantastic, both me and Anthony are very happy with the current product. However, we can do better. We're a bit concerned about the listener base being pretty small, so we're in a constant search to find ways to promote the podcast and draw in a few new listeners. We've played a few episodes on streams and we're working on some ideas to engage people to help boost LoL up even higher than it it already.

Here are just a few thoughts we've been kicking around to help get LoL moving forward.

The Quest for Milestones

For those of you that have followed LoL, you know we have active promotional work. Lots of places you can go to catch up on latest LoL news and get notifications of upcoming events and episodes. Facebook, Twitter, this MyIGN page. They're all updated when an episode is released and I'd like to use them all a bit more. However, in order for those to be effective promotional pieces, we gotta get eyes on those pages. And so, the concept of Milestone Prizes came to mind.

Essentially, we've set some small milestone goals for our various promotional pages. And each one we hit, we will do something special, be it on the 'cast itself or something else. Here are just a few we've been kicking around.

100 Twitter Followers - We will learn and sing a fan-suggested song on the podcast.

300 MyIGN Followers - Bob and Anthony will both take pictures of themselves wearing ridiculous outfits and post them.

An Episode Breaks 100 Listens on Podomatic - Bob and Anthony will both record videos of themselves dancing for five minutes and post them on Youtube.

Low On Life Hits Top 25 Gaming Podcasts on Podomatic - Every time this happens, one of us will stream a game of your choice!

Low On Life Hits Top 10 Gaming Podcasts on Podomatic - See Below*

(All of the appropriate pages and accounts will be linked below)

*The Ultimate Torture Challenge - If we can get Low On Life to peak the Top 10 Video Game podcasts list on Podomatic, Bob will do a 24-Hour Torture Marathon. Basically, we pick one of the shittiest games ever made... and Bob will play it for 24 hours straight live on his stream! We've been in the 30s or so before, so it's not completely unreachable. It'll just require a LOT of listens and hits from various people to make it happen. Follows on Podomatic may help too.

Fan Art Submissions

We're always looking for submissions from our listener base. I like posting fan-made art on our Facebook page, and would love to have an entire "Fan Art" album up. We know a lot of our listeners have great art skills, and we'd love to see some hilarious pictures drawn up of various inside jokes and topics brought up on the podcast. For instance, if you want to draw a picture of me and Anthony hugging Robot Hitler and screaming "YAAAAAY Hitler"... you probably shouldn't. But it would be hilarious.

Want an example? Look at this picture a 3 year old drew for our podcast back for episode one.

Actually, Anthony Drew This!

All fan art will be promoted by us, along with any links you want to provide to any kind of art blogs or sites you may have. So if you're going to make any art submissions, please throw them at the Low On Life email account!

The LoL-Cat Mailbag

One thing we don't do here at LoL is spend time pandering for questions and topic suggestions from the listeners. Too many other podcasts have done that, and I frankly find relying on that every week to be kinda boring. However, I do think it may help engage listeners a bit more and give them incentive to listen, so we've decided to add a new segment to the podcast. The LoL-Cat Mailbag. We won't be doing it every episode, but we'd like to spend some time every few episodes answering some email questions or talking about things you guys want to bring up. So, we're opening the email account up to questions and topics brought up by the fans. And considering it's LoL, we're... expecting a lot of weird questions. I'd be NICE if they were video game related, of course, but... yeah.

Guests

While I've quite enjoyed the more laid-back two-person podcast with just me and Anthony, we've had a lot of fun with the few guests we've had on. So, we'd like to try to have guests on a little bit more often. Not every episode, mind you, but on occasion. We're still not sure about having guests on the entire episode, but we'd love to have people on from time to time for parts of the episode to talk about various topics. If you have a functional microphone and would like to be on for a little while some episode, we're going to start collecting a "guest list", so let us know in the comments and we'll get back to you.

We've also always kicked around the idea of a "listener call in" episode or segment similar to our Extra Life episode. We're not quite sure how it would work, but having multiple people call in for a few minutes to, say, ask questions or share stories related to certain topics is an idea we're always thinking about. That is, if I can get past some skype call recorder tech issues...

The LoL Trophy Set

This is more of a for-fun idea that we're really excited about. We've essentially invented a Trophy/Achievement system for Low On Life! That's right, a full set of 50 trophies in order to achieve a "Platinum" trophy. These are various inside jokes or things we know we'll eventually do on episodes of LoL. The goal is to not TRY to do these, but to let them happen naturally. And, as added fun, we've come up with something to do when we hit that Platinum.

A 48-hour marathon! That's right, if we Platinum Trophy the Low On Life podcast, me and Anthony will throw down another 48-hour stream marathon between the two of us! And we'll let the fans pick the games! Consider it a special celebration with fans for the podcast working out so well. More information on that when we come closer to achieving that Platinum.

Here is the trophy list!

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Low On Life, High On Something

Unlock all other trophies. Can we go home now?

That Should Be The Trophy

Anthony tells Bob something should be the title of the episode.

Just Kiss Already

Someone compliments the other in an oddly sexual way.

Screw Chew

Bob talks with his mouth full while recording. Shoulda ate before...

Seig Heil? NEIN!

Go a whole episode without mentioning Hitler.

Nickelback? No, Quarterback!

Reach 25 Episodes.

Premature Kreygasm

Someone makes something that isn't sexual into a sex joke.

Transition Mission

Achieve 5 great topic transitions in one episode.

Palmer Buddies!

Bob and Anthony both have an Arnold Palmer during the same episode.

Like That's Going To Happen

Bob actually compliments Nintendo.

Best Worst Idea

A Worst Idea Ever ends up being a great idea.

So That Happened

An awkward pause goes for more than 5 seconds.

Why Is That Funny?

Someone laughs hard at something that isn't actually funny.

Bob, Come Back!

Bob meanders off topic during a rant.

Drunk Anthony Rises

Anthony messes up a word.

Must Have Been The Cat...

Bob's loud-ass door is heard on the 'cast.

One-Two Punch

Both Phil Collins and Michael Bolton are mentioned on the same episode.

Oh, How Far We've Fallen...

Discover a new low during Youtube Comment Round-Up.

The Next American Idol Is...

Someone sings for no apparent reason.

Get Off The Stage!

Anthony does an impersonation... badly.

Rain Down

Someone pretends to cry.

Rare Conflict

Bob and Anthony have a disagreement.

Total Gomination

Bob is the only person heard for five minutes in a row.

Ho Down

Anthony insults Johnny with no provocation.

And They Said It Couldn't Be Done...

Anthony mentions a game Bob has not heard of.

He Has A Heart After All!

Bob interrupts the podcast to show affection to his dog.

What The... What?!

Someone is rendered speechless.

Old Habits

Bob mispronounces "Vita".

You're Not Punny

Someone makes a pun and no one laughs.

Guilded Rage

Bob goes off on an angry rant.

Here Today, Gom Tomorrow

Bob mentions an idea that is never used. (Triggers after 3 weeks)

Rated R

Bob swears more than 5 times in one minute.

How Can We Be Lovers?

A Michael Bolton song is sung on the 'cast.

Back On Our Feet Again.. And Again

5 different Michael Bolton songs are sung on the 'cast.

Now Back To the Good Part!

10 different Michael Bolton songs are sung on the 'cast.

There He Goes Again...

Bob troll insults Nintendo 10 times.

Nintendo Super Fan My Ass!

Bob troll insults Nintendo 25 times.

Skyloft Falls

Bob troll insults Nintendo 50 times.

Kirby's Stream Land

Someone references inside jokes from live streams 5 times.

Living The Stream

Someone references inside jokes from live streams 10 times.

Stream Team

Someone references inside jokes from live streams 25 times.

You Shouldn't Have!

Someone submits a piece of LoL fan art.

No Really... Stahp!

Five pieces of fan art received.

We Don't Even LIKE Art!

Ten pieces of fan art received.

Finally, A Voice Of Reason

Have 10 different guests on the podcast.

Junk Mail

Receive LoL-Cat Mailbag submissions from ten different people.

Why Are We Doing This?

Bob and Anthony threaten to quit the podcast 10 times.

Celestial Annoy

Bob fanboys about Okami.

Chronically Irritating

Anthony fanboys about Chrono Trigger.

Just Troll With It

Bob and Anthony successfully get Johnny on the podcast.

Operation: Albino Flying Nuns

Someone says the word "waffle".

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We Need Your Help

How can we achieve any of these things? Easy: we need your help. You guys have help make this the best damn podcast around, and we're turning to you to help us get all this done. Spread the word, promote, listen, and help get the various promotional pages seen. Submit stuff and help us out, any way you can.